. The ladies' companion to the flower-garden : being an alphabetical arrangement of all the ornamental plants usually grown in gardens and shrubberies, with full directions for their culture . FIG. 30.—PORTABLE GREENHOUSE. with manure is using smoke flues ; i out of fashion, are now beingand these, after having been long I pai-tially revived ; hot water pipes,. riG, 31.—CIRCULAR PORTABLE GREENHOUSE. however, are still generally substi- i house, heated by hot water, isj tuted for them. A common green-1 shown in Jiff. 29, which contains a GREENHOUSE. 147 GREENHOUSE. propagating shelf (a) for cut
. The ladies' companion to the flower-garden : being an alphabetical arrangement of all the ornamental plants usually grown in gardens and shrubberies, with full directions for their culture . FIG. 30.—PORTABLE GREENHOUSE. with manure is using smoke flues ; i out of fashion, are now beingand these, after having been long I pai-tially revived ; hot water pipes,. riG, 31.—CIRCULAR PORTABLE GREENHOUSE. however, are still generally substi- i house, heated by hot water, isj tuted for them. A common green-1 shown in Jiff. 29, which contains a GREENHOUSE. 147 GREENHOUSE. propagating shelf (a) for cuttings,as they must be near the glass. Itis not usual in greenhouses of thisshape to have any path behind thepots ; but, in this, a concealed pathis left at h, which may be hidden byThunhergia aldfa, or some otherclimbing plant, so as to enable thegardener to reach easily to waterthe plants on the shelf (a). Thestage may be composed of flag stonessupported by brick piers (c). Thereis a front shelf for bushy ornamentalplants at! ,- and the hot-waterpipes are shown at /. It is evidentin this greenhouse that smoke fluesmay be easily substituted for hot-water pipes, if they should be pre-ferred. Portable greenhouses, ofhotbeds, have lately been inventedby the French nurserymen, for thepurpose of striking cuttings in verysmall pots, a rage for little plants
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